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Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
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Re: Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
#72I'm glad to see he's transferring to hover.com. I moved my domains there a little over a year ago and couldn't be happier. I didn't have issues with NS but had a lot of issues with Register.com doing shady things like this. Hover.com is about first domain registrar I've used that didn't feel shady as far as milking every last dollar they could out of me. Trying to up sell, etc.
I agree. The few domains I have there, I'm really happy about. I love how it really focuses on domains first.
However, with the email service, google apps, and web forwarding, I'm a little concerned they'll start up-selling ssl, hosting, seo, website builders, etc, etc, etc, etc.
I think it would be hard NOT to do this as a domain registrar given how it probably feels like you're just leaving money on the table by not selling all these other related services.
Re: Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
First sentence of the article: I got an email from Network Solutions — where I still have two domains, originally registered in the ’90s
Wow. That's insane.
That someone has been a Network Solutions customer for 14 years (minimum)? Yes, that is insane. :)
Re: Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
#74I've never had any issues with GoDaddy for domains. There are always coupons for renewals. I've never paid more than $7/yr for each of the twenty or so domains I have. Just make sure you don't have domains autorenewing.
GoDaddy's the only registar I know of with a history of transferring domains to authorities merely by their request, without a court order requiring them to do so. On top of trying to sell out the web as a whole (helping to draft SOPA and having themselves written in as the recipient of seized domains), GoDaddy's not a company I would recommend doing business with.
Re: Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
#75This is a violation of federal law, specifically the Restore Online Shoppers Confidence Act. Opt-out or negative option charges to credit cards are illegal as of January 1, 2011. So is using a credit card number on file for one reason (e.g., auto-renewal of annual registration) for a second product or service.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/8401
Note that the law doesn't prohibit 30 day free trials, which is how a lot of SaaS products are sold, so long as that's conspicuously displayed at the time of the original sign-up.
Re: Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would as well recommend Namecheap.com, really professional.
I liked Namecheap, but have had major issues with their DNS service. you can't switch off of them without downtime. So don't use their dns, otherwise you are locked in. which is kinda shitty.
haven't had any of those problems with Hover's DNS service, which is surprisingly full-featured for an self-styled minimalist service.
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#77I really do not trust hosting or domain register companies, which is why I use paypal to pay them. But recently, they have been able to setup an automatic recurring payment when I do this (9web). There is no option when I entered paypal, but to paypal's credit they did send me an email, and it was easy to log back into paypal and stop this.
Use your credit card directly, my experience is that disputing with paypal for non-physical goods or services is almost impossible for the buyer. Despite paypal's marketing, they offer virtually no protection for purchase of virtual items or services eg software.
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#78Network Solutions has always had appalling business practices that verged on the criminal. Some years ago, they poached a domain my wife had registered with another vendor, by sending her a misleading renewal letter. That particular event ultimately wound up with them at the receiving end of a class action suit. I absolutely refuse to ever register another domain with them. Their business practices are about as evil…
I prefer their other method of registering domains that you checked for whether or not they were available. They would then charge a premium to get that domain.
Re: Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
#79I've never had any issues with GoDaddy for domains. There are always coupons for renewals. I've never paid more than $7/yr for each of the twenty or so domains I have. Just make sure you don't have domains autorenewing.
But it's a pain to have to dig for the latest coupon codes every time you want to renew a domain for a reasonable price.